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For starters, I love the licensing, as it is very fair: I bought a personal license and I can take it to as many machines as I have (I do use many different com
by jll29 2y ago
For starters, I love the licensing, as it is very fair: I bought a personal license and I can take it to as many machines as I have (I do use many different computers). And you can buy it one time, no silly monthly subscription fees.
As a result, Sublime ist the only commercial (locally installed) software I still use, and it is always open.
There are situations, where I use macros, regex substitutions, or browsing the file system (using the keyboard only for speed) when I prefer to use my other editor, Emacs.
I recently played with Zed, which looks cute, but I immediately lost an important file, so back I was in the Sublime buffer. (Both Sublime and Emacs always auto-save documents without explicit "save" action, so you can never lose anything.)
I tend to have many Windows open (several dozens), some of them for several years, others for five minutes. The only two features I would like are:
- search across all open files and
- a list of edit buffers that is itself an editable buffer that you can walk around using cursor key and select a file by hitting RETURN like Emacs has it.
Generally, I prefer that I doesn't become a feature overloaded big monster of a program that can do everything (that's Emacs already, but I like both, I just want them to stay different).
Although for longer-term programming of bigger projects I prefer IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA or PyCharm CE, in recent time, I had to write mostly small programs, and both Emacs or Sublime fit that bill (no need for language servers for me for two screens full of a Python script as I also teach that stuff).
- the_duke 2y ago> but I immediately lost an important file Zed has an "autosave" setting, it's just off by default.
- robin_reala 2y agoSublime’s behaviour isn’t an autosave, it just never loses text in a window. You can upgrade the entire OS, start Sublime and your windows and text will be waiting for you, regardless of saved or unsaved state. I’ve got five-year-old scratchpad windows open that I’ve never saved.
- andrepd 2y agoFwiw zed also has this explicit "sublime style" save all buffers since 3-4 months ago.
- JackMorgan 2y agoHow do you enable it? I just installed Zed yesterday and I was looking for this setting. Edit, I suspect what I wanted was the "after delay" setting here https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#autosave https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#autosave
- kevinastone 2y agoIt doesn’t save unnamed files which is mostly how I use this feature in sublime-text (as a scratch pad): https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4985 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4985
- computerthings 2y agoThat's still my favorite feature of all, it even remembers the undo history. Never lost anything to a crash.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI had no idea it preserved this too.
- jaredsohn 2y agoI think you need to create a project file and then it stores things there. For a long time I would get paranoid about accepting Mac updates which would require a reboot because then I'd lose my undo history and then I discovered that this is all I would need to do.
- computerthings 2y agoWhile I meant closing the whole application at once (which restores all windows/projects and unsaved changes when you restart ST), you're right that projects keep track of unsaved state on a per-project basis, too. So you can open and close project windows individually, but also do the same for Sublime Text as a whole.
- paulcarroty 2y agoIt works well, but Zed consuming too much CPU on Linux: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14833 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14833
- elAhmo 2y agoHow did you lose a file?
- vijaybritto 2y agopossibly restarting the System
- noname120 2y ago> but I immediately lost an important file Notepad++ has had that feature (persisting temporary text buffers) before Sublime Text even existed.
- jampekka 2y agoI'd guess vim has had this (the .swp files) since the 90's.
- bondarchuk 2y ago>Both Sublime and Emacs always auto-save documents without explicit "save" action, so you can never lose anything. Unless, of course, you accidentally press "delete folder" instead of "remove folder from project" in the sidebar context menu.
- yladiz 2y agoAs far as I’m aware it just goes to the bin, it’s not rm’d, so it is recoverable.
- cobertos 2y agoIt's not a one-time purchase if you consider updates. > Personal licenses are a once off purchase, and come with 3 years of updates. After 3 years, an upgrade will be required to receive further updates.[0] Tbh I think this is fair, but it surprises me every 3 years when I have to pay up again xD [0]: https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text
- guiambros 2y agoI actually like when I get the note that I need to pay for the upgrade. It's a good reminder that I still find Sublime valuable (so much that I use almost daily), and that I got 3-4 years of free upgrades for a fair price (vs. subscription models like 1Password, or version-specific rip-offs, like VMware Workstation). It's one of my favorite piece of software. Obsidian being another one.